Year: 2026

Improving speaking ability is probably the main reason students of Chinese enlist the help of a teacher. This does not mean that finding a good...

Image source: pixabay.com/en/users/PublicDomainPictures/ Improving writing beyond your speaking ability requires two things: exposure to written...

From 李纯博’s 雨天. For people who are learning languages other than Chinese, the question of how to improve handwriting doesn’t come up often. Some...

Having a tutor can be great for learning Chinese, but how much progress you make depends as much on you as on the tutor. Come prepared, stay...

Something I hear learners ask about often is the so-called learning plateau. There is no standard definition of this, but it usually involves...

This month’s challenge is about reading Chinese, and that seems to be as good a reason as any to publish an article about habit formation and...

A great tutor can accelerate your learning, but finding one isn’t easy. To get the best results, you need to be patient and try many options....

  Listening is in my opinion the most important skill to focus on when learning Chinese. Listening not only provides the input you need to learn...

People who know nothing about Chinese often ask me how to write their names in Chinese characters. The answer is that you can’t. Names in...

As anyone who has tried using mnemonics to learn something knows, some concepts are easier to link together than others. In general, the more...